Worst "side character" in gaming?

MiracleOfSound

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Lukirre said:
miracleofsound said:
Dom on insane in Gears 2. Caused mutliple fails.
To combat that, I never feel as epic in Gears as I do when Dom gets his rear handed to him early off and I get to singlehandedly take out the rest of them. Gives me the inspiration to keep going and all.

However, the fails far outweigh those situations. Too bad GoW just wouldn't be the same without him, eh?
The problem is on insane mode he can bleed out. So you either run into the line of fire to save him and get utterly raped, or you let him bleed and fail the mission. Great choices!
 

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Yeah I've got to say Dom I mean seriously GET OVER YOUR FREAKING DEAD WIFE!
This, although I never experienced his supposedly crappy AI, because I played through the whole game with my brother.

Ah, fun times..
 

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Hmm, as most of those I would post are already taken, I'll go with one I haven't seen yet.

Any main heroine from a Tales game. Is it REALLY that hard to avoid being kidnapped?
 

Lord Beautiful

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Inarticulate_Underachiever said:
Every party member in combat in Mass Effect
You mean you didn't enjoy the way they didn't obey your commands, couldn't shoot for shit and you repeatedly had to revive thier sorry asses after they got downed after 3 seconds of combat?
How about the way they walk right in front of you as you're firing at an enemy?
 

MiracleOfSound

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-Zen- said:
miracleofsound said:
Inarticulate_Underachiever said:
Every party member in combat in Mass Effect
You mean you didn't enjoy the way they didn't obey your commands, couldn't shoot for shit and you repeatedly had to revive thier sorry asses after they got downed after 3 seconds of combat?
How about the way they walk right in front of you as you're firing at an enemy?
I am amazed that devs have yet to fix this age old AI problem in thier games. I couldn't believe it when sheva started doing in resi 5.

Alyx Vance is the only AI I an think of who never blocks your shots.
 

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Benjamin Montgomery in Operation Anchorage DLC for Fallout 3, he's an invincible brick wall that NEVER DOES ANYTHING. He literally just follows me and will be lucky to pop off a few shots between picking his nose and staring at my bum.

Oh and his "squad" only has the abilities of sucking and dieing.
 

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The survivors in Left 4 Dead.

They are hopeless. Escorting one of them is hard enough, but when you try to save three or more at the same time at least one of them is bound to be eaten by zombies. Not to mention that they always seem to get distracted by shiny objects when following Frank so you end up running 50 feet and look back only to see the morons standing around. Thus you would always have to call them to make sure they kept up with you.

"Come on! Follow me! Come on! Follow me!"

Oh yeah they sucked at fighting. They won't kill the zombie 2 feet away from them. Instead they would prefer to run right in front of me so I accidentally hit them with a katana.

If they don't count, then Otis. Trying to save the survivors is annoying enough, but Otis constantly calling you on the damn radio magnifies the frustration about 5 times.
That's Dead Rising
 

Internet Kraken

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Darkrai said:
Internet Kraken said:
The survivors in Left 4 Dead.

They are hopeless. Escorting one of them is hard enough, but when you try to save three or more at the same time at least one of them is bound to be eaten by zombies. Not to mention that they always seem to get distracted by shiny objects when following Frank so you end up running 50 feet and look back only to see the morons standing around. Thus you would always have to call them to make sure they kept up with you.

"Come on! Follow me! Come on! Follow me!"

Oh yeah they sucked at fighting. They won't kill the zombie 2 feet away from them. Instead they would prefer to run right in front of me so I accidentally hit them with a katana.

If they don't count, then Otis. Trying to save the survivors is annoying enough, but Otis constantly calling you on the damn radio magnifies the frustration about 5 times.
That's Dead Rising
Oh god that was dumb.
 

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Charon in fallout three 9 always taking my amour,stimpacts/ammo/keeps diing0 *grumbles in corner*
 

Lord Beautiful

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Lucia in Devil May Cry 2 sucks pretty badly. She isn't cool, she isn't compelling, Hell, she doesn't even have any interesting moves. She's just plain dull.
 

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Try RE: Outbreak if you want some truly horrendous bot play. They always equip the biggest weapon they can find then burn off precious shotgun and grenade rounds on invulnerable enemies or negligibly weak ones like moth larvae. They run around aimlessly, often straight into enemies, commonly refuse your commands, and run straight into environmental hazards like fire and the moving locomotive at the end of level two. I've had them go off all alone at the beginning of the level and then found their body about halfway through, which is doubly bad on the hospital level since that resurrects the powerful stalker type enemy if you've already killed it.
 

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Superfly Johnson, Daikatana. Seriously, if John Romero was going that far for racist commentary he could've just called him Fried Chicken McWatermelon.
 

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azazcyh said:
corbina94 said:
azazcyh said:
Sheva from RE5 stop trying heal me you crazy chick
yahtzee rip off
yep damn proud of it too
Oh well yahtzees awsome and ive said "kobold" a few times myself and "r-o-a to the m-i-n hes a crime solving rank 11 paladin

oh and my least favorite Otis from Dead Rising
 

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HEY!!! LISTEN!!!
It can actually bring a true gamer to his knees...
Damn you... Navi...
 
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Aqualung said:
suckmyBR said:
Yeah I've got to say Dom I mean seriously GET OVER YOUR FREAKING DEAD WIFE!
This, although I never experienced his supposedly crappy AI, because I played through the whole game with my brother.

Ah, fun times..
You have no idea how lucky you are when I was playing through on Hardcore mode I was just defeating the final Sire and he decided to spam frag grenades all around the last sire, that I was currently chainsawing. Needless to say I decided to wait a bit for my friend to come online so I could play through it